Supported Device for people with disabilities

Inspiration

Helping people with disabilities.

What it does

Description of our project: In this project, we created a hardware-based device which is a robotic arm that can help people with disabilities who a hard time using their hand, or people who just got arm surgery that cannot use their hand but living alone. In our demonstration, the application we applied on this robotic arm is to feed food. Our goal is to make a low-cost automated device which can make their life easier and more convenient and affordable.

How we built it

Firstly, we try to come up with project idea on what we want to do, then we bought the needed supplies. We use sensitive force sensor to sense the force that human apply to it, that is programmed using Arduino. The Servos will give the robotic arm rotate to the right direction

Challenges we ran into

The challenges we ran into was because we got limited supplies so it's very hard to us to accomplish anything complexed. The supplies were very important because once we have idea but for example: without the sensor we need, we cannot complete it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We ran into many difficulties with limited of components. There are some points that we thought we could not complete the project to submit it...but we made it!!! This is our first ever hackoverflow for all team members and we could actually create a product over the weekend, so we are happy with the result.

What we learned

We learn how to use CAD and 3D printer. We learned how to come up with an idea and complete it during a short period of time. We learned that teamwork makes dream work.

What's next for Robotic Arm for people with disabilities

In our demonstration we use this arm to feed food, but it can perform even more functions in the future, it could be your very own extended arm. In the future, we want to develop this robotic arm not controlled by the sensitive force sensor, but by our brain. Then it will be connected to our brain and the direction will be move by our thinking. We can try different material to replicate it to look like the real human arm, not robotic.